The 1920's

jazz age! perfect ambient music for mindless office tasks

thank you.

Bully!!

If anyone can tell me how I could share a powerpoint presentation with you guys I could show you a project on the '20's I did a few weeks ago in 8 hours on a sunday night. It's pretty alright.

Also,  I guess the 1920's were good because they were really the begining of movies and major production companies, and I love movies, so yeah.

Murderer's Row

The Four Horsemen

Lucky Lindy

Talkies

Houdini

if you like stuff about the twenties, check out a film called Bright Young Things.

Princeton football.  I remember that.  Not literally though.  Just from some DBQ I did.

Also, Flappers.

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love the flappers, and al jolson, good one nate! I knew you'd do well here. Lindy was an anti-semite! Thanks for the tip for the movie.

Damn! Who knew Houdini was so ripped?

Also...1890-1940 or so is about my favorite time in American history...

Tony Latone and The Pottsville Maroons (aka the Greatest NFL story never told)!

Dr. Caligari!

Metropolis!

The Federal Theater Project! The US Government PAID theaters to make art!

Speakeasies! Hellzapoppin! Animation gets invented! Cars look really frickin cool! Nikola Tesla!

And, just around the bend in the '30s, the ideal of the classic SuperHero is born! The Lone Ranger! The Shadow! Superman! Batman!

I woulda run things back then, sure! Life woulda been peaches and cream! Just me and my gal and a shiny nickel on our way to the matinee! Golly!

Whippie! I knew this would be a hit!

.....whippie? wtf.

It's the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, you knave!

also, monkeywright, they just did a big deal story on the Pottsville team on Inside the NFL this year.

Speaking of football, that new george clooney film is coming out soon. their having the premiere for it across the river RIGHT NOW!

anyways, another good movie to get is Surrealissimo, about Dali and all the other of those surrealists nutballs back then.

how flippin cool is that chick behind houdini with the hat?

Yeah, I just read the book "Breaker Boys" abou tthe Maroons, it's pretty incredible stuff. Football was trippy back then, kinda like MMA in the mud.

Damn it, you're right. I hate it when I think I actually know something and I'm completely wrong.   Eh, Notre Dame sucks anyhow.  They lost to Washington State.  How sad. 

Dada art!! Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray!

Vive Magritte!

Uhg, I can't stand "Nude descending a staircase".  That painting's bullshit. 

edit: Although, the google image search brought up some nice pictures.

oh I love Magritte and Duchamp!

I'm watching south pacific now, but that's more 40's I guess.

They just sang a song about Dames. Haha!

good job justin. 'Some enchanted evning' just bored me.

the sun also rises - ernest hemingway

I really like this topic, Levi.

November 1922: Howard Carter discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamun
 

Also, prohibition:
 

And speakeasies.
 

Louise Brooks

The Cottingley Fairies (ok it was 1917 but hey it's close)

The era of Spiritualism:

mediums, psychics, spirit photographs, ectoplasmic manifestations galore!

poor old Arthur Conan Doyle was a great believer in this stuff

At the same time Houdini was trying to expose these spiritualists for the fraudsters they were!

what the hell i hit the button once.

bahhh bajillion posts

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edit: sorry for hurting your thread levi. but i don't know what happened

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so after all of that, i noticed that it posted after every letter i typed...wtf?

i now hate the 1920's ...j/k

It's because AlexPallix mentioned spirits and ectoplasm. She invited them in, and look what happened! (it didn't happen to me, because I am 50% ectoplasm)

 Aw, I can't see a lot of the pictures.  But I love this thread.  The other day we were talking about the '20's at my friend Leah's house and while we were talking she fled off somewhere, a few seconds later came back with this picture of her grandmother as the funniest-looking flapper I'd ever seen.  Ah, flappers.

Nuff said.

AND it didn't even post my original post?

what i said originally was...

LOUISE BROOKS! i love her, she is classic and fab.

and i wore a flapper dress to my prom.

whee! I love this. I was excited to see 18 new posts this morning, but i guess it was just my shotgunface ruining everything. Oh well, such is life.

I love the fairies, the spritiual times, and the king tut thing. Keep them coming!

i'm just shitting you, alyissa. We all screw up sometimes. did I spell your name right?

she needed a reboot.

i don't know anything about it but i'm alwasys suspect of anything that gets glamorized, it was probably awful for poor people like most decades, also the films had no talking.

haha levi, take a Y out of that and you have my name. alissa. 

at least i wore a flapper dress to my prom, and i wore it again to a wedding...woo hoo

someone call the ghostbusters!

I would figure that would be something you're in favor of.